CEA Supports Sales Tax Moratorium To Drive Holiday Sales
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has thrown its support behind a Senate bill that would suspend the collection of state sales tax on most...
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has thrown its support behind a Senate bill that would suspend the collection of state sales tax on most...
The following is offered with apologies to MGM’s “That’s Entertainment”: When one tries To offer them some great buys And you say It’s just...
Best Buy is sponsoring the broadcast premier of U2’s Elevation Tour performance in Boston, airing Nov. 23 on VH-1, and will have a two-week...
Four CE devices and one major appliance were among the 17 products picked by Popular Mechanics magazine as winners of its 2002 Design &...
Best Buy has bolstered its online operation by launching two new Web sites that provide entertainment content and digital downloads. Both are linked to...
Despite the soft economy — or perhaps because of it — three of CE’s leading extended service providers have forged new agreements with dealers....
It’s damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead for retailers who are continuing to add stores and infrastructure in the face of a shell-shocked economy....
The challenging retail environment took a toll on third quarter results for Top Five CE merchants RadioShack and Sears, while online upstart Amazon.com posted...
In advance of the all-important holiday selling season, Best Buy and Circuit City are touting the benefits of digital technologies through in-store and road...
To better tailor its programs to the needs of member dealers serving the rent to own (RTO) market, the Brand Source/Associated Volume Buyers buying...
Amid the e-commerce wreckage of the post-Internet bubble business cycle, leading CE specialty e-tailer 800.com continues to expand its operations. Among the pure-play’s latest...
Back from the brink of insolvency, Internet superstore buy.com has reinvented itself in anticipation of the holiday selling season by redesigning its Web site,...
Looking past the horrors of Sept. 11, which brushed the industry in a personal way, extended service plan executives say they will be able...
We all have seminal moments. Moments of such significance that they are so permanently etched in our minds that, when they are recalled, we...
Ritz Camera Centers’ $84.7 million bid for bankrupt photo chain Wolf Camera may not be in the bag. A U.S. bankruptcy court has received...
Target said it will begin selling consumer electronics and other product categories through Amazon.com later this fall. Thousands of items including CE, apparel, jewelry...
Amazon.com said its computer store will begin selling refurbished and surplus computers provided by TechSmart, which reconditions and resells leading brand name desktop and...
CompUSA has opened its second and third Cozone stores in Arlington and Reston, Va. The openings follow the debut of the small format concept...
Do you remember the days when all a store owner had to know about retailing was how to buy inventory, sell the product, record...
Retail Dealers of America (RDA), the former Key Southwest chapter that broke away from Brand Source/AVB in April, held its first national convention here...
John Riddle, a two-decade veteran of Maytag, who joined Philips Consumer Electronics in April as its retail sales VP, is no stranger to the...
Office Depot has opened the first two of 11 planned prototype stores that may represent the office supply chain’s format of the future. According...
M. Rothman & Co., the Northeastern CE distributor, reached a major corporate milestone this year: it’s 50th birthday. To mark the occasion, the family-run...
The theme was one of sophisticated software systems and solutions, but the focus was decidedly more basic at last month’s GERS Retail Systems’ Retail...
One of the best services a column like this can provide for consumer electronics retailers is to point out new trends — especially if...
The Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) continues to grow its membership, global presence, program development and industry contributions. Over the years, membership...
Wal-Mart is crediting the first wave of tax rebate checks for an uptick in sales of consumer electronics and air conditioners at its stores....
Now that e-commerce has established a beachhead in CE retailing — bloody though it may be — pure-play and click-and-mortar merchants are using the...
It is no longer just the place your mother-in-law goes to auction off her prized Beanie Babies. With more than 34 million registered users,...
The TWICE Top 5: Best-Selling Products At Retail Based on June 2001 unit sales
Two new tomes have been penned to help independent dealers compete in an over-stored marketplace. From Eddy Kay comes “Thriving in the Shadow of...
In the wake of a weak market for dot-com investment capital, Wal-Mart and Kmart are biting the bullet and buying back their e-commerce businesses....
As part of its new emphasis on customer relations, Circuit City is providing an online survey to gather feedback from customers regarding their in-store...
Too many talented garage-rock musicians are languishing in obscurity, unable to catapult their blaring anthems to an audience wider than friends, family and patient...
Retailers are guarded in their fourth-quarter outlook as they lay in plans now for the next holiday selling season. Given the continuing economic slump,...
What a difference a couple of years can make. It wasn’t too long ago that Warrantech Corp., the extended service contract provider, found itself...
When the going gets tough, as it certainly has in the current economic climate, the tough get going. And when the tough get going,...
Like a modern day David to Bentonville’s Goliath, Frank Wildhaber, owner of 27-year-old L & W Appliance here, decided to open his newest store...
Life could be so much sweeter and simpler for consumer electronics and appliance retailers if suppliers would offer merchandise at one price, or at...
During CEA’s CEO Summit keynote, Best Buy’s Brad Anderson also addressed the age-old question of sales training and how important it is in keeping...
Best Buy’s Brad Anderson fielded questions from his audience of both manufacturers and retailers on key industry issues, and key issues facing Best Buy,...
The Top Three CE specialty chains laid much of the blame for tepid May and first quarter revenue on sluggish sales of personal computers,...